Definition of flour Flour
/flawˈɚ/ - [flawer] - flour
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What does flour mean?
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NounPlural: flour |
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| flour - fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain | ||
| food product, foodstuff a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food | ||
| staff of life, bread, breadstuff food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked | ||
| dough a flour mixture stiff enough to knead or roll | ||
| pastry any of various baked foods made of dough or batter | ||
| plain flour flour that does not contain a raising agent | ||
| wheat flour flour prepared from wheat | ||
| soy flour, soybean flour, soybean meal meal made from soybeans | ||
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| flour - cover with flour; "flour fish or meat before frying it" | ||
| dredge remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water | ||
| cookery, cooking, preparation the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife" | ||
| flour - convert grain into flour | ||
| convert change in nature, purpose, or function; undergo a chemical change; "The substance converts to an acid" | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- flour (n.)
The finely ground meal of wheat, or of any other grain; especially, the finer part of meal separated by bolting; hence, the fine and soft powder of any substance; as, flour of emery; flour of mustard. - flour (v. t.)
To grind and bolt; to convert into flour; as, to flour wheat. - flour (v. t.)
To sprinkle with flour.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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flour
Ground or milled grain or cereal. -
flour
To sprinkle with flour.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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flour
flowr, n. the finely-ground meal of wheat or other grain: the fine soft powder of any substance.—v.t. to reduce into or sprinkle with flour.—v.i. to break up into fine globules of mercury in the amalgamation process.—ns. Flour′-bolt, a machine for bolting flour; Flour′-mill, a mill for making flour.—adj. Flour′y, covered with flour. [Fr. fleur (de farine, of meal), fine flour—L. flos, floris, a flower.]
Wikipedia 
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Flour is grains that have been dried and ground into powder. It is mostly made of wheat. Flour is used to make many foods.
Flour is an important part of bread, pasta, cookies, cakes, tortillas. Flour is made in a flour mill where the grain is put between two stones or steel wheels which are rubbed together to make the grains into powder.
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